Nikolaus Meyer-Landrut

Nikolaus Meyer-Landrut (2017)

Nikolaus Meyer-Landrut (born July 9, 1960 in Düsseldorf ) is a German diplomat . He has been the Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to France since July 2015 . Before that, he had been Head of Department 5 (European Policy) at the Federal Chancellery since February 2011 and thus the Federal Chancellor's closest advisor on European issues.

Life

Nikolaus Meyer-Landrut was born in 1960. In 1979 he graduated from the Evangelische Landesschule zur Pforte in Meinerzhagen in the same class as the actor Markus Hering and the journalist and lawyer Oliver Tolmein . In 1987 he received his doctorate in history under Andreas Hillgruber at the University of Cologne . His work was entitled France and German Unity . Meyer-Landrut is married to a French woman and has four children. He is the nephew of the diplomat Andreas Meyer-Landrut and the second uncle of the singer Lena Meyer-Landrut . He is an active supporter of the Bela Foundation , a foundation established by Barbara-Maria Monheim to promote young managers.

career

Meyer-Landrut began a career in the Foreign Office in 1987 . From 1990 to 1993 he worked in Vienna , where he was responsible for the disarmament negotiations between representatives of NATO and the Warsaw Pact (see also Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe = CFE Treaty). From 1993 to 1995 he lived in Brussels , Belgium , where he worked as a political advisor on external relations. From 1995 to 1999 he was deputy head of unit at the Ministry's headquarters, at that time still in Bonn , where he was responsible for the Amsterdam Intergovernmental Conference (see also Treaty of Amsterdam 1997) and the EU's common foreign and security policy. From 1999 he was spokesman for the permanent representation of the Federal Republic of Germany to the EU in Brussels. From February 2002 to summer 2003 he was spokesman for the President of the EU Constitutional Convention , Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, and from September 2003 to April 2006 head of the EU policy department at the Foreign Office, now in Berlin . Since May 2006 he has been working in the Federal Chancellery, where he was group leader for EU policy issues, European policy relations with EU member states and EU external relations until February 2011. He followed Uwe Corsepius as the new European department head. In Germany, European coordination is understood to mean the positioning of the federal government and the German states in relation to the policy of the European Union, especially in the Council of the EU .

In July 2015 he succeeded Susanne Wasum-Rainer as Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in France with a second accreditation for Monaco .

Publications (selection)

• France and German unity. The attitude of the French government and the public to the Stalin notes in 1952 (= series of the quarterly books for contemporary history . Volume 56). Oldenbourg, Munich 1988.

Web links

Commons : Nikolaus Meyer-Landrut  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Resume. German representations in France, accessed on August 4, 2015 . 
• What's next in Europe? The Lisbon Treaty and the 2009 European elections. Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung , accessed on February 18, 2011 . 
• New Head of Department Europe in the Federal Chancellery: Nikolaus Meyer-Landrut. European Movement Germany , February 18, 2011, accessed on October 18, 2018 . 
• More than Lena's uncle. In: Frankfurter Rundschau , February 10, 2011, accessed on February 18, 2011 . 
• “A stable euro is our greatest task”. In: Der Tagesspiegel , February 17, 2011, accessed on February 18, 2011 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lena Meyer-Landrut's uncle becomes Merkel advisor In: Die Welt , February 16, 2011.
2. ^ Website of the Bela Foundation
3. ↑ Press conference February 16, 2011 archived version, accessed on October 18, 2018
4. ^ German representations. Federal Foreign Office , accessed on August 4, 2015 . 

predecessor	Office	successor
Susanne Wasum-Rainer	Ambassador to France and Monaco since 2015	-